Waistaways Team Chat - February 2022
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@kdblpn Dubai is the only place I've been on holiday where I can see myself living there. This will be my 4th or 5th trip after my father moved out there a few years ago. People I know love it or hate it. Definitely not my first choice for a relaxing holiday but there's so much to see and do, I'd recommend giving it a go if you get the opportunity.3
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@kdblpn
my ideas are: peanut butter and banana sandwiches, cold pasta salads or chickpea salads, chickpea pita wraps using @jugar hummus suggestion as the spread, cans of beans, trail mix, homemade energy bites, protein shakes
For Superbowl, @bowens1973 is making us pizza from scratch on the charcoal grill. So excited. Go Rams!!
@DD265 Dubai... how fun!!!
@micki48 We are definitely standing beside you and I'll keep the 477 miles on hand for our step reports
2/9 exercise:
10049 steps
Meal out #1 was a success. A glass of Malbec and a salmon dish over shrimp risotto with mixed veg and corn salsa and tomato puree. Decided before I got there, pre-tracked, and stuck to the plan. Tonight's dinner is at a steakhouse and I've done the same. Also, after sharing my early morning grievances I guess I got a bit of a boost as I got up at 5 a.m. to do my Peloton ride before work. I do feel so much better when I do that so thanks for being a listening ear.6 -
OK @jugar Deal! I'll get a perfect day in today. I have tried to get my kids to tell me off, and then when they are eating something I should not eat, and I take a little, I want to strangle my own sons for trying to put themselves between the bowl of chips and my hand! I think I need to tell them not to physically try to take the food out of my reach, but simply try to awaken my conscience! When it is only words, I smile and take my own decision. When they are dancing away from me with the food I am craving, it makes me crave it even more and think : "how dare you tell me what to do!"6
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The sun was so nice for a few hours today. I felt elated by the brightness and the fact that my Ortho person is thrilled that my shoulder is doing so well. She said that I have no restrictions! Of course, I'm about as strong on the left side as a first grader but hey, I'll keep working on that.
I've been going a little nuts recently eating bread. It's well baked and with good ingredients but I also have some digestive issues with certain foods (like wheat), and it *still* shows up 20 years after learning about it the first time! Amazing. Let's hear it for consistency.
Time for more water then tea, with a walk between.
Have a good evening.
I'll be back on the morrow for weigh-in day.
Be well, dear teammates.5 -
@ashleycarole86 Dragging butt in the mornings in winter is OK! It’s cold out there, and dark, too! Give yourself some space to work with that…it’s just natural to be slower. I try to develop plans that recognize the natural ebbs and flows of the seasons so that I can still feel like I’m succeeding. It’s a must.
@ashenmoon I was so glad to read about your success with treats, and I can see how good you feel about it – that is excellent! Congratulations on working to shape up your nutrition. That is always a win, even when it’s not perfect on some days.
@evmakeschanges I also feel a marked difference when the days are sunnier! I find myself fully enjoying winter this year but also strangely longing for spring more than usual…not sure why.
@yinxfed I was sorry to read about your back pain, but glad that it was not as bad as it has been. Not working out due to pain, when you really want to workout, is an exercise all in itself, isn’t it?
@kdblpn Well, I pack my daughter’s lunch most days for school, and we stick to a healthy diet. Baked goods that are healthy (I add hemp seed, chia, flax, etc. and also use little sugar, using maple as the sugar) can last well. You can make bars, crackers, etc. I like to pair crackers that I make with hummus and vegetable sticks for dipping. I actually do pack preserved high-quality soppressata or genoa, sliced thin; it will last. Also, jerky that does not use chemicals for preservation can work here. These can be high in salt, so it’s not an every-day thing. I pack kefir and it doesn’t really “go bad” in one day; it’s quick and full of nutrition.
@kellybgetsfit Sometimes, your body just needs carbs and that is OK! Reach for some non- or minimally- processed options.
Weighed in Wednesday and had a loss. From 146 to 142.6. Honestly, I’m not usually a big loser like that. Not sure why I got a loss here…but I will TAKE IT! I’ve been on a roll on my elliptical, trying to do it everyday. That may be the thing that pushed me over.
2/9: 40 minutes elliptical + 20 minutes weightlifting + 8864 steps
Have a great weekend!
Jenn
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Are all the Friday people ready? Here we go!
@Steph1498
@Pearl4686
@Micki48
@happimess01
@gak71
@EvMakesChanges
@conleywoods
@bonnie_red
@ells_bellz
And few pre-Friday people too --
@graceojo999
@MandiSaysHey
@evangsimmons170
Thanks!2 -
PW: 168.4
CW: 166.8
Trying a new challenge at my gym! So, hopefully, this trend continues! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!7 -
PW 237.4
CW 237.6
A tiny gain which actually was a huge loss since I bounced up to 340.8 last Monday. I really focused on self care this week. Made room for workouts in my schedule. I took yesterday off work to do something I wanted to do. I spent the day setting up my new guinea pig cage since my original was too small. I also did some house cleaning and grocery shopping yesterday. I am free today so my mother in law and I are heading to the mall. The kids need a closet refresh so that's what they are getting for valentines. My hubby and I have decided to skip gifts for valentines this year. We don't always do gifts. Some years we set a spending limit of $20 and whoever picks the most cliche gift gets bragging rights. We will figure something out for valentines but keeping it easy. I'm a little behind on reading. I will catch up and post more soon!6 -
Hi everyone!
Don't worry 🤭 I'm still here 😂
I happily report another loss 👏👏👏
ellz_bells
Friday
PW 227.4
CW 224.8
Woop!Woop! 🥰
P.S I've got that cleaning job, too so sorry I have been missing in action for bit. I will report later ♥️
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@jugar CW: 181.1
Step by miserable baby step…slowly down to the next lower decade (again). I know. Trying to stay on the positive side. I walked down to the pond around the neighborhood loop with Sarah this afternoon. It was so warm! It’s not normal to be close to 50-degrees on February 11th!
At any rate, I’m practicing moderation with all pre-made snacks, taking ideas from my teammates who pick a day or two to savor them. It’s effective. Most of the time, I’m ok avoiding crackers and cheesy salty things but this week…I’ve been prowling around for sugar and salt. Good to balance out the extremes!
Off to get some supper prep going with Sarah.
Have a great night and weekend.
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2/10 -
46 minutes indoor cycling, 8523 steps
Day 3 of suppers out tonight. We are off to Banff right after work to meet up with an Aunt and Uncle that are visiting from Manitoba. It'll be a pub meal and beer will be involved. I have pre-tracked so unless alcohol gets out of control I should be good.
We are taking them for a snowshoe in the morning before returning to Calgary.
Gotta go pack - enjoy the weekend all!3 -
CW - 174.1 lbs5
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Friday weigh in
PW 197.2
CW 195.6
Packing all day. Drinking my water. Currently over 13k steps.7 -
All you Friday folks are wonderful. Even if you have a bit of a gain - and I'm a Friday person also, even if my weigh-in does not count with the regular team! I got down a bit from my blowout week at my dad's so all is well. I think I'm needing a bigger drop though - week 3 begins today for Friday weigh-ins. I'm aiming at 1 - 1.5 to get back to the comfy part of my maintenance range.
@ashleycarole86 beer as part of the meal means the meal is salad or mostly veg, right?? That works for me
@micki48 all that packing is unpacking the pounds! Hard, but wonderful. Don't reward with cookies and stuff, ok? Take all those nourishing deep breaths and hugs.
@EvMakesChanges you've got this! Down below 180 again soon - those snacks can be pickles! salty, crunchy...
@ells_bellz and @bonnie_red look at that! Great week!
@conleywoods it sounds like you are covering all the bases. If your OH gives you chocolate or something you would rather not be eating for Valentine's you are allowed to deck him. Tell him I said so
but it sounds like you're having a good time with getting things together for the family
I had a totally slo-mo snowshoe today. Two hours with the taller half - he loves to stop everywhere and reminisce about the old days and the trees that used to be there in that part of the woods, or some tree he felled in a particularly difficult and crazy way, or a mushroom he picked there, etc. etc. etc. It is fascinating, but I got home after 2 hours on the trails without being soaking wet with sweat! WHAT IS THAT?? Mind you, I got a chance to look at all kinds of tracks, wonder about a squirrel snack that had no tracks near it, and think about all the people that may have been on this land before 1973 when my OH bought it.
Then I was so hungry, I started dinner early. Sadly (but eventually luckily) the container marked "tomato sauce" in the freezer was vegetable soup. This was discovered after putting a spaghetti squash into the oven to roast. So I quickly thawed some roasted tomatoes and made an amazing tomato sauce, put in asparagus, roasted eggplant, and tuna. Dumped all that on the spaghetti squash and grated some parmesan over it. SO delicious. It helps to be really hungry!
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Happy Friday friends (or what is left of it for some of us!) - lots of great weigh-ins!
While doing Noom, they tell you to weigh in every day. A lot of diet science will actually disagree with that but they insist some studies support daily weigh-ins as a way to overcome scale anxiety. I actually started weighing in every day at some point in 2020, mostly as a way to see the data and understand what really caused bloats, and busts, and booms. So I'm doing that again now. But the last 2 days, the scale has been creeping up 0.2-0.3 lbs and it was so frustrating. The last year+ when the scale went up, I knew exactly why. (Hello, pretzel crisps at 10:16pm). But this week has been SO on-target. I have worked out every single day. Logged all meals as planned. Eclipsed 11k+ steps.
So I was getting annoyed. But victory: I did not let the anger lead to overeating like it usually does. I stuck to the plan. And I have determined 2 more important things I can add to my new habits/approach to food:
1. No more table salt. Since childhood, I have loved salt above all other flavors. But I drown my food in it and it makes you hold onto water/weight! (It never caused me to have poor health stats - I have an "ideal" cholesterol profile according to the Doc, so I insisted I could just keep dumping it on 90% of my food). I took my shaker, normally always within arm's length, and put it in another room. 3 meals today that I would have put salt on, had NONE.
2. Eating more s-l-o-w-l-y. I chew so fast! It dawned on me last night at dinner! Which messes with my hunger cues and digestion.
I also just need some patience. Part of the daily weigh-ins is to remind you that your body fluctuates. It happens. I'm just very used to having a good drop when I track + do a long cardio/strength workout like I have this week.
I have a good plan for tomorrow and Sunday, which can be difficult days for me. Hope the same is true for yall.6 -
Week 2 is almost done - let's get the Saturday people on the board and catch up with anyone who is still due today or running a bit late --
@kellie_erin
@veronica1359
@graceojo999
@MandiSaysHey
@evangsimmons170
@Steph1498
@Pearl4686
@gak71
Weekend time!2 -
PW=89,2Kg
CW=88,3Kg5 -
PW 253.6
CW 253.05 -
Taking a moment to stop in before my day gets underway.
@kali225 Sounds line you have a good plan. I think daily weighing can be good for data, but you have to allow those fluctuations because they are normal. When I was doing it I found out I almost weigh more on Tuesdays. Made me stop and think. But remember, our weight represents all of our contents and reflects all kinds of things going on in our lives. Just the same, cutting salt will allow you to play with some other great no salt flavors.
@jugar Very few cookies around here. I have noticed I’m listening to my hunger more and stopping when full. Doesn’t seem to take long lately. That may be stress too-little appetite
Sometimes it is good to take a slow snow shoe trek. Stopping to take note of all those wonderful things sounds very grounding. As you know, Pilates doesn’t always register a lot of calories, but its effect is great!
Have a great Saturday everyone.
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Hi everyone, I need to weigh in today for tomorrow as we will be outta town, sooo
Pw 177.4
Cw 177.0
Not huge, but considering last week was a big one, I am happy. Usually I would have a small gain.
I have started some low impact aerobics and am able to walk more at work. Dr said I could do some low impact yoga, but I haven't tried it yet, I will be honest , I'm scared. I do not want to mess anything up so I can wait another month or two. I go for my graduation appt in about 3 weeks and they will do x rays then to check on the fusion progress, so hopefully I will feel less scared after that. Lol
The weather here has been weird, its in the 60s yesterday and today, but a snowstorm tomorrow....
Well I have lots of reading to catch up on.
Have a great week !
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I hope everybody is having a good weekend so far.
Today started with a ParkRun, showered etc then OH and I did a bit of food shopping (butchers and bits from the other supermarket), he left and I had a wander round the charity shops. Didn't buy anything; I'm on the lookout for some trainers for every day (not running), a very small bedside table and a particular range of jigsaws. Will keep looking! Met up with my running friends for an afternoon tea/lunch which was very nice. We went for the slimmers one (more so it wasn't slathered in cheese/mayo from my perspective) but did finish up with a slice of raspberry and white chocolate cake. Was going to share, they said the slices were quite small, I wished we'd shared as it was stodgy. Nevermind.
I have properly picked up that cough from OH, though his is chesty and mine is more in my throat. Dosing up on the meds to hopefully kick it to the curb, but I am very tired and think the rest of today might be a write off. I concluded that I only really need to clean the living room window frames thoroughly before the decorators come back this week and that everything else physical can wait, so that's on my list for tomorrow. Today I have 4 gardening magazines to read (they arrive monthly, perk of my bank account so at least I'm not paying!) so that's a nice sedentary task I can do on the sofa. The other one is wrapping leftover cross stitch threads onto bobbins in a storage box - monotonous but requires very little energy! The bobbins are labelled with the thread number, which means if I'm short a colour in a kit (happens a lot, unfortunately) it will be easy to check if I have it before ordering more thread, plus my cross stitch basket will be much neater.
I've also got a task to go through all our cook books and extract the recipes we might/do use into Google Keep - then I can rehome the physical books and save a load of space. I'll keep a handful but all the old WW ones for example can go. We're down from 3.25 (half width, half height!) shelving units to 1 in the living room, so space is at a premium! I borrowed a couple of little books from a friend during the week so I have photos from that to process too; luckily Google can copy the text out of an image and I just need to correct/format it, then add a photo. Trying a new recipe for tea - Spanish lamb meatballs - and I'm going to make a start on that now because you can prepare the meatballs in advance.5 -
2/8 exercise: 11121 steps + 60 minutes Orangetheory (15 minutes treadmill + 45 minutes weights, rowing, stretching. Fitbit gave me 2710 steps).
2/9 steps: 8828
2/10 exercise: 11421 steps + 60 minutes Orangetheory (25 minutes treadmill + 35 minutes weightlifting, rowing, stretching. Fitbit gave me 4303 steps).
2/11 exercise: 8231 steps + 60 minutes Orangetheory (15 minutes treadmill + 45 minutes weights, rowing, stretching. Fitbit gave me 3494 steps).3 -
PW: 188
CW: 186.8
There have been some great losses this week! I'm still trying to meter my expectations to reality. I know work is going to get quite busy for me over the next little while so stress will be up. Plus I'm dealing with foot injuries that have made me not push quite so hard at the gym. I was really hoping to be in the 170s by my birthday (March 2), but that's not feasible now. Oh well, I just need to keep moving forward5 -
The February Week 3 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 13th...this week we spend some time focusing on self-care because there's ONLY ONE YOU!! You can put yourself first and STILL be an AWESOME person!!! Join us, will you?!! See you tomorrow!
Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10856371/february-week-3-group-challenge-self-care-bingo#latest
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Hello all - it has been a very special Saturday here. I almost never get to be home alone, but today the taller half went off to cart his vintage motorcycle engine from one place where they did one repair, to his buddy's place to work on some other mysterious engine jobs for the rest of the day. I love being home alone - especially for practicing (during which I talk to myself, the score, the composer, the pencil, my flute, etc. etc.) without feeling like I am completely cracked. I'm getting seriously hungry now, though! And I have to be prepared to hear all about the stud nuts and other exciting (but difficult to install) motorcycle parts!
There are still a few weigh-ins to come, but so far we have lost more than 4x the amount we lost as a team last week! That might change a bit with the final people, so let's see where it goes! Get these in by 8 am Eastern Sunday morning and we'll see how it all shakes out:
@graceojo999 and @MandiSaysHey - last chance not to be dropped for February! We miss you!
@evangsimmons170
@Steph1498
@Pearl4686
Hang in there and enjoy the weekend!4 -
We are home from Banff! We had a great time. We had a lovely supper out last night and I did have a bit more to drink than planned, but nothing crazy. We walked to the restaurant and back and it all came together nicely.
This morning after breakfast we took my Aunt and Uncle for a short snowshoe loop at a lake just outside Banff and then came home. We are resetting before going to pick up my Mom for a night away in Calgary.
2/11 exercise:
61 minutes Peloton, 12406 steps
Great to catch up with everyone. Enjoy the rest of the weekend! I'll be back tomorrow.7 -
86.2
I have fallen off the wagon and struggling to get back in the zone. It's having pretty bad digestion side effects. I have this weird thing where my body functions perfectly fine on a rubbish diet but as soon as I start eating mindfully, it cannot bear a few days of bad eating...9 -
Happy Sunday, Friends. Here's my weigh in:
PW - 188.1
CW - 187.5
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, Friends!
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